Josip Csoor

I’ve found Josip Csoor purely by mistake while surfing the
internet and I was amazed by his style. I wanted to know more about him
and his art but the only place where I could see more of his art is
Facebook.

“Goddess Kali and her bathroom”

He seems to share a sad underestimated
artist story, in a country where, let’s say, art is at least
…underestimated if not dead (Serbia). An art of such caliber would never
ever pass unnoticed in any other country and for sure would never ever
be discriminated as he claims,his art is, in his home country.

What is striking about his style are
not the contrasts, that are amazing by the way, nor the semi abstract,
surreal,visionary landscapes but the power that it transmits. Every
single painting that I saw has a certain amount of artist power that can
only come from within.

“Ancestress and her guards”

In my life, I’ve seen a lot of
religious art, of all kinds and I think the Greek ancient temples (for
example) are great to define the past and the long forgotten gods just
as our new churches and mosques represent the present and recent past.
Josip Csoor though, is a visionary and I do believe that this is the way
our future temples will look like. They will have this type of
beautiful art and people will worship some sort of alien gods.

When I first saw his art, I thought
that it has to be digital but to my surprise all of them are oils on
canvas which I believe is amazing. The way everything flows like an
ethereal dream and the characters are in there but you cannot really
grasp them gives his paintings a sense of uniqueness.